B3A.
Illustration for Comus,
The Mask
(John Milton). 1856.
1. THE WILL OF THE WISP
(p.67).
Note: Although this design was originally intended for Willmott's Poets
of the Nineteenth Century (1857; see the letter below B3's entry), it did not appear
in print until
1858. Had this fact been previously known, this entry would
have
been separated from B3
to form a new one (B4).
The design was later expanded and
used for 123 (Jack
O'Lantern).
B6.
Illustrations for Dealings
with the Fairies
(George MacDonald).
.14. COULD HE BELIEVE HIS
EYES? THERE
LAY--NO WOLF--BUT WATHO!
PROV: ...; thence to his son Bernard Powell MacDonald; thence to his
grandson Peter MacDonald; thence to his widow Rosemary MacDonald;
thence in 2006 to her son Christopher
MacDonald.
B11.
Illustrations for Enoch
Arden
(Alfred Tennyson).
EXH: ...; Richmond 1998 (14--10,
repr.
p.33; 15--12, repr.
p.33; 16--17). To W.M. Rossetti [16 December 1865] (MS: South
African National
Gallery):
Windsor Lodge
You will very soon be seeing my wretched
illustrations to
Enoch in the book; and I have just now all the drawings on paper by me
for a few days, and they are a little
better than their
smaller printed duplicates.
B18.
Illustrations for 'At the Back of
the North Wind'
(George MacDonald, in Good Words for the Young).
14. DELETE
THIS ENTRY (see B44.4E
below).
61. HE WAS ENTRANCED WITH
HER LOVELINESS.
PROV: 61
was with Chris Beetles Ltd. in 2006; bought from them by an unknown
buyer.
EXH: ...; Richmond 1998 (17--16;
18--47; 19--60,
all
three repr. p.35).
B23.
Illustrations for The
Window; or, the Songs
of the Wrens (Alfred Tennyson). To Susan Lushington, 20 February 1914 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
I have been making friends with Cadogan Cooper:
he ...
[has] one of my better pen and inks framed and hanging up!
B24.
Illustrations from 'Lilliput Revels'
(Matthew Browne, in Good Words for the Young).
4. BARBARA PETLAMB.
5. THE PEDLAR'S DIAMOND.
8. LITTLE KEEPER.
9. HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME
DOES.
10. KNIGHTLINESS.
PROV: .... Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 27 June 2006 (part of 24, all repr.
colour); bought for £4,200 (the Lot) by Maas
Gallery.
B29.
Illustrations for 'Lilliput Lectures'
(Matthew Browne, in Good Words for the Young).
4. TRADE.
PROV: .... Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 27 June 2006 (part of 24, repr.
colour); bought for £4,200 (the Lot) by Maas
Gallery.
B35.
Illustrations for 'King Arthur's
Great Boar Hunt'
(anonymous, in Good Words for the Young).
1. KING ARTHUR'S BOAR HUNT.
PROV: .... Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 27 June 2006 (part of 24, repr.
colour); bought for £4,200 (the Lot) by Maas
Gallery.
B36.
Illustrations for Sing Song
(Christina
Rossetti).
41. IF A PIG WORE A WIG.
43. 1 AND 1 ARE 2. PROV:
...; bought in 1937
from R.E.A. Wilson (inscription verso). Thomas Agnew
& Sons
(label verso). Mary Durnford; bequeathed in 2002 to her
nephew Ed Ruck-Keene.
Photo courtesy of the owner.
117. MOTHERLESS BABY AND
BABYLESS MOTHER.
118. CRIMSON CURTAINS
ROUND MY MOTHER'S BED.
PROV: ...; bought from him in April 1998 by Dr.
Dennis T. Lanigan.
EXH: ... A Dream of the Past, University of Toronto
Art Centre,
8 April-22 September 2000 (32, repr. p.109).
LIT: ..., Kooistra, Lorraine Janzen, Christina Rossetti and
Illustration (Ohio University Press, 2002), pp.97-126.
D.G. Rossetti to John Westland Marston, 21 November 1871 (MS: Bryn
Mawr):
My sister Christina is bringing out a little
Nursery
Rhyme book, of which the publisher will send you a copy....
I should add as to my sister's little book that
the
drawings in it by Arthur Hughes are to my mind beyond all praise.
B40.
Illustrations for 'Innocents' Island'
(Matthew Browne, in Good Words for the Young).
20. YOUNG LAZYBONES.
PROV: .... Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 27 June 2006 (part of 24, repr.
colour); bought for £4,200 (the Lot) by Maas
Gallery.
B41.
Illustrations for 'The History of
Gutta-Percha
Willie'.
Alexander Strahan to George MacDonald, n.d. [c.1873]
(Shaberman,
Raphael B., George MacDonald: A Bibliographical Study
[Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1990], pp.132-33):
P.S. When speaking of money I forgot to mention the book
"Gutta
Percha Willie." It stands this way:- I paid you £50
on
account of it, and I paid for Mr. Hughes's illustrations
£94.10/-
(ninety guineas). One half of the latter sum is charged
against
the magazine, and the other against the book....
B44.
Illustrations for ... 'London
Mixture', and 'My
Daughter' (in Good Things for the Young of all
Ages,
Christmas Issue 1872, and January 1873). 1872.
4A. THE FAIRY AND THE
SLEEPING CHILD
(p.1). Note: This was incorrectly catalogued as a design for
'The
Princess and Curdie' (B50).
4B. INITIAL 'I'
(p.1).
4C. JONES, BARBARA, AND
MR. MILES
(p.2). Note: This was catalogued as 'Title Unknown' (B65).
4D. MR. MILES LEAVING THE
CONFECTIONERS
(p.3).
4E. BARBARA AND MRS. SMYTHE
(p.4). Note: This was incorrectly catalogued as a design for
'At
the Back of the North Wind' (B18.14).
4F. THE MERRY YOUNG MEN
(p.8).
4G. MATCHES AND HER MOTHER
(p.10).
4H. LORANA AND THE THREE
BROTHERS
(p.22).
4I. PRINCESS DEVIZA AND
RIZADEEN
(p.32).
5. MY DAUGHTER
(GEORGE
AND THE DRAGON). Pen & ink on card, 16.5
x 11cm,
6½ x 4¼ in. Signed l.r.: 'AH'
(monogram); inscribed
in pencil (in another hand?): 'Good line block' and 'Please keep this
drawing clean'.
5A. MY DAUGHTER
(sketch). c.1900.
Pencil on paper, 17.5 x 11.5cm, 7 x 4½ in.
Unsigned;
inscribed l.c.: 'My Daughter'.
PROV: .... 4A was with
Dr. Herman T.
Radin; gifted by him on 20 August 1937 to New
York Public Library (MEKV). 4E
was with A.E. Anderson; gifted by him in 1916 to Victoria
& Albert Museum (E.420-1916). .5
was with Dr. Greville Matheson MacDonald; thence to his son Bernard
Powell MacDonald; thence to his grandson Peter MacDonald; thence to his
widow Rosemary MacDonald; gifted by her to Scottish
National Portrait Gallery. 5A
was with Peter Austin Daniel by c.1900; anon. sale,
Sotheby
King & Chasemore, Pulborough, 23 July 1980 (part of 1431),
bought
for £11.15 by private collector; bought from him in August
1992
by private collector; bought from him in December 2000 by David Ross;
gifted by him in August 2002 to Yale
Center for
British Art, New Haven.
LIT: Reid, p.91; Douglass 1960, p.530 (4A
repr.); ....
Note: The author would like to express his gratitude to Maroussia
Oakley, who has identified the "London Mixture" designs only mentioned
in passing by Reid.
B44A.
Titlepage illustration for Rambles
by
Patricius Walker (William Allingham). c.
late-1872.
?Pen & ink.
1. QUEEN'S BOWER
(circular).
The design was later used (c.1875) for Jacques
and the Stag
(140).
B46.
Titlepage illustrations for The
Works of Miss
Thackeray (Anne, Lady Ritchie).
5. BLUEBEARD'S KEYS.
6. THE STORY OF ELIZABETH.
8. MISS ANGEL AND FULHAM
LAWN.
PROV: .... 5 was in an
anon. sale,
Sotheby's, 31 October 1997 (repr.). 6
and 8 were in an anon.
sale, Sotheby's,
27 June 2006 (part of 24, repr. colour); bought for £4,200
(the
Lot) by Maas Gallery.
9. MISS WILLIAMSON'S
DIVAGATIONS.
10. MRS. DYMOND.
DELETE
NUMBERS 9 and 10
(it has been determined that these two are not by Arthur Hughes).
B48.
Illustrations for Speaking
Likenesses
(Christina Rossetti).
LIT: Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Christina Rossetti and
Illustration
(Ohio University Press, 2002), pp.126-39. To Lucy Madox Rossetti, 24 May 1874 (MS:
Angeli/Dennis Papers,
UBC):
Finborough Road
Will you thank Miss Christina Rossetti for me for
suggesting me to illustrate her little book called 'No where' which I
am to do, and am expecting in printed slips every day.
B50. DELETE THIS ENTRY (see B44.4A
above).
B59.
Illustrations for 'The Bright
Midnight'
(Rev. R.L. Gales, in Vineyard, December 1910).
1. ANGELS O'ER THE REALMS
OF GLORY.
PROV: .... Anon. sales, Sotheby's, 5 November 1997 (200, repr. p.104),
unsold, and 11 November 1998 (298, repr.); sold for £1,150.
4. DECORATIONS FOR 'THE
SHEPHERD'S GIFTS'.
PROV: Gifted in January 1913 to Rupert Potter. To Susan Lushington, 12 January [1913] (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
I did not properly describe Greville's
screen. I do
not think he was to show my things [B61]
by Magic lantern, only hanging on a temporary wall. I saw
them
so, but did not attend the lecture....
I sent one of the little designs I made for the
"Vineyard," [that] they print now as "Greetings," to Mr Rupert Potter.
Note: The design for 4 was
reprinted and issued as a Christmas card in 1912.
B60.
Illustrations for The
Magic Crook or the
Stolen Baby: A Fairy Story (Greville MacDonald).
Pen & ink on 31 sheets of cardboard, various sizes.
All
signed: 'AH' (monogram).
PROV: The 57 drawings were purchased in 1967 by The
Macy Company Collection, HRHRC, University of Texas, Austin
(76.109.1-31).
B61.
Illustrations for Trystie's
Quest: or Kit
King of the Pigwidgeons (Greville MacDonald).
EXH: Olympia, 1912-13. To Susan Lushington, 11 April 1912 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
I am sometimes grumbling dreadful over my
drawings, and
now and again getting crumbs of joy out of the inventing them; but they
go most dreadfully slowly, but do go on thank goodness. To Susan Lushington, 15 April 1912 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
I am bearing up with my Fairies and Goblins and
Pigwidgeons, with a Leprachaun thrown in; and ransack an empty brain
for pleasantries for the first, and unpleasantries for a second, and
ugliness for a third, and tendernesses for the last. And
altogether it is endurable and sometimes gives me pleasure when I can
see my way and get along. Today I have been at S-Kensington
searching for material. To Susan Lushington, 28 April 1912 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
Thanks too for fixing a date to look forward
to. I
almost am glad it is not earlier, for the time flies with the drawings
I am hoping to quite finish and be free from by then, but not much
before....
Dr. Greville MacDonald has just been here to see
the
drawings, and can't say enough in their praise; he has always had a
weak spot in his heart for my work. I suppose there must be
people who do not like it, but I don't meet them. I only know
the
weak minded I think! To Susan Lushington, 25 July 1912 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
Greville MacDonald, now, after
the Eleventh hour,
wishes to leave out one of his best chapters, and has written a very
worst to replace it and wanted me to do two more pictures; and I have declined
and am now reasoning with him by Post and telegram. I hope he
will see the error of his ways.
B62.
Illustrations for Jack and
Jill
(Greville MacDonald). To Susan Lushington, 25 December 1912 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
Greville actually suggests that I do another book
for him! To Susan Lushington, 25 February 1913 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
Greville, who seemed to have decided not to do
another
book, now has determined to do the third one and sent me the first four
chapters to start on; and they are very good as I always find his
beginnings are. And I mean to remonstrate if he loses my
esteem
as he goes on, though my former objections availed little I must admit. To Susan Lushington, 9 March 1913 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
I am very lucky to be able to amuse myself
designing the
new book illustrations. And I have about settled how to do
all
the copy I have yet received so far, and with Godfrey's help am making
beginnings of them all. To Susan Lushington, [21 March] 1913 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
Greville makes me happy by giving me some new
script--a
Dragon, & a Witch! and some Trolls! So I feel quite
at home. To Susan Lushington, 15 April 1913 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
I have just been vegetating cheerfully over
MacDonald
drawings, and yesterday he came and saw them so far with great delight
I think; but I do so wish the story were less hastily put together. To Susan Lushington, 17 April 1913 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
I have just come to a point of great trouble in
the
illustrations for Greville's Story. I am about the middle of
it,
and have received so far three quarters of the manuscript, and am about
the crucial difficulty of devising the pictures as a whole to bring out
and make the best I can of Greville's story. Some people will
read it only by its pictures, with the text for a soft background to
them (these are the idle people who will say they are too busy); and I
think I must be rather like a person setting out a concert, for I am
trying to make out the best thread that I can out of a considerable
jumble. And then those larger subjects and incidents that
will
show and bring out the passage of it, with the variety wanted in them
as they appear, and the need for beautiful and happy ones to overnumber
and balance the necessarily serious and not to say dismal and grim
ones. This you may conceive means anxiety more or less; and
Time
is on the Wing and writers and publishers have no idea of how much of
it is necessary to the artist that he may give them the best he can. To Susan Lushington, [12 May] 1913 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
I have been busy with my illustrations as you
guessed;
and I gave Greville twelve finished ones the Sunday after my visit to
you, and he did not know how to praise them enough. And he
took
them to a new Publisher for bringing out, and he also echoed Greville's
opinion; and now I am grinding along with the later ones and have not
yet received quite the whole of the Story. To Susan Lushington, 14 June 1913 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
I shall not be able I fear to complete my
drawings by
then, with a rather difficult picture in colour added for
frontispiece. Greville thinks them better than the former
books I
did for him, and I greatly wish them to be, for his sake and my
own. And most likely this will be my last, and I would like
it to
be the best I can do....
I have been working hard (for me) and with help
too; but
"Art is long." To Susan Lushington, 20 June 1913 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
My drawings go on and will I think until the
arrival of
[Mrs. Bolus]. But I am happy to see my way through the
trouble of
the coloured frontispiece, and am hopeful altogether about them. To Susan Lushington, 30 June 1913 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
The drawings are still tailing off; but hope to
be quite
done before [July 7th]. To Susan Lushington, 25 November 1913 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
Greville MacDonald ... wants a new cover done for
"Jack
& Jill"! But it is all nearly through now.
B65. DELETE THIS ENTRY (see B44.4C
above).
B66A.
TITLE UNKNOWN
(study). c.1900. Pencil on card, 25.5 x 18cm,
10 x 7in. Signed l.l.:
'AH' (monogram).
PROV: Private collector; bought from him on 29 July 2005 for
£348
by Scott Thomas Buckle.
B68.
UNSEEN.
Mid-1860s to mid-1870s.
This drawing was reproduced as one of the plates
in
Geoffrey Holme (ed.), Drawings In Pen & Pencil From
Durer's Day
To Ours (The Studio, 1922). The search continues
for the
title of the publication for which the drawing was executed.
Appendix
A: Excerpts from
Letters with Multiple References
Letter 12A To Ford Madox Brown [c.
mid-August 1882] (MS: South
African National Gallery)
Wandle Bank
I have all last year's pictures [156,
171, 172, 178]
and this [177,
179, 180, 181,
182]
unsold. I have sent three [100.3,
172, 186] to
Manchester, so do take a look at the Exh'n like a dear old
boy.
The Royal Institution is the name of the place. I send them
to
the Academy and Grosvenor both each year and they are fairly well hung
and very cheap, and never comes any application (and nobody gives me
any woodcuts to do these 7 years past)....
I occasionally meditate doing watercolour a
little; and
that reminds me, I could finish the study of a blown wood [169] I lent you some day, so if
you have done
with it, will you send it somehow?
Letter 25A To Susan Lushington, 13 December 1912 (MS: Private
collection):
Kew Green
It is so nice to read that you wish I "could have
seen
with you all the stars reflected in the pond,"... and I could wish it
too, and then wish to paint them perhaps. But do I not
remember
painting a small picture that I called "The Bath of the Star" [371], where through a few thin
willowy trees
you saw one star in water; and did not your friend
Mr Somerset
Beaumont buy it and two or three others [350,
358, 373, 382,
388, 389] at
my Exhtn
at the Fine Art Socty?
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PROV: 61
was with Chris Beetles Ltd. in 2006; bought from them by an unknown
buyer.
PROV:
...; bought in 1937
from R.E.A. Wilson (inscription verso). Thomas Agnew
& Sons
(label verso). Mary Durnford; bequeathed in 2002 to her
nephew Ed Ruck-Keene.
Pencil on card, 25.5 x 18cm,
10 x 7in. Signed l.l.:
'AH' (monogram).